Artist Tracey Emin has married a rock. As in, an inanimate object belonging in the garden.

Oh, here we go. Because the world isn't 'kooky' enough or whatever, artist Tracey Emin has married a rock. Not rock as in a 'rockstar', or even the renowned World Wrestling Entertainment champion, 'The Rock'. No, no. Just a cold, grey, inanimate rock.

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The artist, who's particularly famous for her Tate exhibition, 'My Bed', revealed her updated marital status while promoting her newest work, I Cried Because I Love You, in Hong Kong. Casually dropping into conversation that she married a rock last summer from her garden in France, we're now not entirely sure what the world is coming to.

But that might also be something to do with the fact that Emin apparently wore her father's funeral shroud (a piece of cloth traditionally used to wrap a body in preparation for burial or cremation) for the ceremony as some kind of morbid wedding dress.

Speaking of her love, Tracey said: "Somewhere on a hill facing the sea, there is a very beautiful ancient stone, and it's not going anywhere. It will be there, waiting for me." Yeah, it will. But that's probably less to do with its emotional commitment to her, and more related to the fact that it doesn't possess any neurological activity and therefore cannot move itself.

It's a rock.

Tracey has also described her 'partner' as "an anchor, something I can identify with," which is an altogether interesting concept, really. We're all for art, and we're all for loving nature, but isn't there a difference between that and actually marrying a piece of it.

I'm also wondering what the implications are for any future nuptials Tracey might want to embark upon in the future. You know, with a human. Could she legally be married to both man and rock? Who knows.

If not, though, surely she'd be allowed to annul her current marriage. If for no other reason than the fact that they definitely won't have consummated it. Because you can't have sex with a stone, as far as I'm aware.

But if a rock is what's captured Emin's heart, then who are we to take that away from her? We hope they live very happily together in that garden in France.